Science News has posted an article based on a research project about "Regulation of behavioral maturation by a primer pheromone produced by adult worker honey bees"

"After more than 10 years of searching, researchers have identified a compound produced by the senior workers in a honeybee colony that prolongs the time that teenage bees stay home babysitting."Read the rest of the article here

If you'd like to read the published research article, you can read the abstract here, and there is a link on the right to a full PDF version.